Apparatus for transferring cash, parcels, &amp;c.



E. C. PHILLIPS. APPARATUS F OR TRANSFERRING CASH, PARCELS, (Kw, APPLICATION FILED JULY 31, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERBINE CURTIS PHILLIPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO LAMSON CONSOLIDATED STORE SERVICE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING CASH, PARCELS, 860.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 2, 1909.

Application filed July 31, 1906. Serial No. 328,572.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERBINE CURTIS PHIL- LIPS, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Transferring Cash, Parcels, or other Articles from Point to Point, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apparatus for transferring cash, or other articles from point to point, in which a stretched wire serves as the travelin way and the carrier is propelled on the impu se given by a motor spring put under tension by hand and.automatically released, and has reference to that class of such apparatus in which the wire terminal sup ports are each (assuming the carrier to be propelled in each direction by a motor spring) provided with means comprising a fork adapted to carry the motor spring, a slidable carriage having a trigger adapted to engage with the carrier, a device adapted to trip the trigger at a predetermined point, manually operated means for withdrawing the trigger carriage and the engaged carrier and putting tension on the motor spring until the carrier is released by the tripping of the trigger and subjected to the action of the spring, and means for returning the trigger carriage to its normal position ready for reengagement of the trigger with the carrier on its return, for repetition of the operation, the invention having special reference to the construction of the trigger carriage in combination with spring barrel, means for returning it to its normal position, as a combined structural device or entity, applicable, as such, to and separable from the other parts of the apparatus; whereby, the application or removal of and any repairs or adjustment incidental to such carriage and its returning means can be more easily effected and the construction of the motor springs holding fork is considerably simplified and certain other disadvantages incidental to the arrangement of such carriage and returning means hitherto used, in which the spring barrel was separate from the carriage and structurally combined with the fork, are avoided, and the apparatus is enabled to be made more cheaply and its operation is improved, the invention also referring to an improved arrangement of means for tripping the trigger.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents sufficient of an installation of apparatus embodying the invention to enable the latter to be readily understood; Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of part of the apparatus on an enlarged scale, Fig. 3 a front elevation of the parts to which the invention principally relates, Fig. i represents a plan of the trigger.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

(1 represents the stretched wire traveling way b, one of its terminal supports, which is adjustable on the standard I) which is adjustable in a socket 12 secured to the ceiling x; c is the carrier; (l, the motor spring; 6, the fork for carrying the motor spring ;f, the fork support, which is adjustable on a standard, f which is adjustable in a socket secured to the ceiling; the wire and motor spring fork supports b, f, being connected by a rod traveling way g. The outer ends of the motor springs (Z are attached to the ends of the fork e. The construction and operation of this motor spring is well known in the art of store service and is clearly shown in U. S. Letters Patent No. 325427, dated September 1st, 1885.

The trigger carriage, h has a roller 7t located by a screw or other removable pin h and adapted to roll on the rod 9; a longitudinal slot 7L2 adapted to engage with so as to cause the carriage to be guided by the wire a which is closed when the carriage is engaged with the wire by a removable wire h having its ends upturned and engaged with slots 7L in the carriage ends; and a trigger 7L5 operated by a spring h and adapted to engage at one end with the carrier and at the other end with the trigger trip i. The trigger carriage also has a pulley h located by a screw or other removable pin 7H between the carriage guides g, a, and around which is passed a cord j which is connected at 3' to the support I) and passes around a pulley 3' carried by the support and is provided at its free end with a step j the adjustment of which determines the return position of the carriage and a handle j". This construction and arrangement of said parts avoids vertical vibration of the wire and carriage when pulling on the cord y' and converts the vertical pull on the latter into a horizontal pull at the part operating on the trigger carriage. The trigger carriage is also slotted at it so as to be adapted to locate a barrel k which is loosely mounted on an arbor h which is mounted fast in bearings h in the uprights h, the barrel containing a metal band spring h which is secured at its ends to the arbor and barrel respectively, and its outer periphery being connected by a catgut or other suitable flexible connection 71, as at f 3 directly to the fork support. This construction and arrangement of said parts enables the motor spring carrying fork to be made with a solid shank which considerably cheapens its production and enables the part upon which the principal stress is brought to bear in the operation of the apparatus, to withstand the same without liability of breakdown.

The device for tripping the trigger consists of a torpedo-shaped trigger i, which is adjustably located on the carrier wire a by means of a set screw it or the like, so as to be caused to maintain a position in the direct line of the travel of the carriage and to be thereby prevented from missing its action on the trigger.

To remove the combined trigger carriage and its returning means from the other parts of an installation of the apparatus, it is only needed to remove the pins 7x 72 securing the pulleys 72., ft? and the wire 7L3, closing the slot 7& and to unfasten the flexible connection it from the fork support at f, whereupon said combined parts can be together removed without interfering with any other parts of the apparatus and by reversing said operations, said combined parts can be together applied to said other parts of the apparatus.

Having thus described the nature of my invention and set forth a construction embodying the same, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In apparatus of the class described, upper and lower ways, a trigger-carriage movable on said ways, a barrel mounted in said trigger-carriage between said ways, a flexible connection fast at one end to said barrel and at the other end to a fixed support, a spring for turning said barrel to wind thereon said flexible connection to move said trigger-carriage, and manually operated means for moving said trigger carriage against the action of said spring.

2. In ap aratus of the class described, upper and fower ways, a movable triggercarriage slotted at its lower end to receive said lower way, a roller removably j ournaled inthe upper end of said trigger-carriage to travel on said upper way, a barrel removably mounted in said trigger-carriage between said ways, a flexible connection fast at one end to said barrel and at the other end to a fixed support, a spring for turning said barrel to wind thereon said flexible connection to move said triggercarriage, and manually operated means for moving said trigger-carriage against the action of said spring.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this twenty-fifth day of July A. D. 1906.

ERBINE CURTIS PHILLIPS.

Witnesses:

A. L. MEssER, A. R. LARRABEE. 

